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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
As a moderator or admin of any instance of the Fediverse you will sooner or later be confronted with people from other instances who harass, discriminate or troll your instance's users. And often lots of these users are on the same instance. If you want an unnecessary and hard challange during your moderation work, you'll | As a moderator or admin of any instance of the Fediverse you will sooner or later be confronted with people from other instances who harass, discriminate or troll your instance's users. And often lots of these users are on the same instance. If you want an unnecessary and hard challange during your moderation work, you'll suspend each user individually, after they did something wrong, but most moderation teams will decide to block at least some instances, that are just full of evil people and are encouraged by their instance's moderation team and rules to troll and harass the rest of the Fediverse. | ||
Some admins will be more strict and block more instances, others less so. One reason why an admin might be strict is because they, or the community they watch over, are part of one or more marginalized groups.<br> | Some admins will be more strict and block more instances, others less so. One reason why an admin might be strict is because they, or the community they watch over, are part of one or more marginalized groups.<br> | ||